Last Saturday, I got the chance to see Portland’s The Winebirds at The Woods. Before their awesome set, I sat down with Rose and Reggie, two of the six members of the band. Watch the video below for details of their upcoming new album, why their name is what it is, and even some joking
Melding lyrical nakedness with ambitious arrangements and pure imagination, Danny Ross builds a sound that’s completely his own – and yet awfully familiar. The Long Island-native has exactly that: a unique sound that channels his heroes. Over the past year, everything came together for the singer when he and his nine-piece band and horn section,
It’s not often I’d voluntarily drive an hour and a half to see a show or interview a band, I live in L.A. and already spend half my life contained in a car in gridlock style traffic- but Like A Storm was coming to town and sacrifices must be made in pursuit of good music.
It’s not often that I skulk around comic book stores anxiously waiting for them to open, but I was there at the crack of dawn to try and get my hands on the extremely graphic little novel Wire Hangers penned by Alan Robert bassist of Life of Agony. Literally the comic clerk must have thought
Last week I reviewed The Goldberg Sisters‘ eponymous debut album, the recent musical venture of actor and filmmaker Adam Goldberg (for the full BestNewBands.com review please click here). The album was well-produced, creative, and accurately delivered on the project’s Facebook page promise to “put a wiggle in your step and a Prozac in your coffee”.
Suzanne Isabel Ferreira, aka Panda Su, is a songwriter whose stories boil underneath their serene exteriors. Her new EP, I Begin (reviewed here), is a bite-sized portion of the tastiest of her humble, troubled songs. With Panda Su, both the lyrics and the instrumental space between them speak volumes. Tracks like “Alphabet Song” and “Bee
Brooklyn may be the last place you would expect find a black metal band. But Liturgy bucks the trend. Taking their name from the dictionary definition of a form of public worship, the band’s music is an ecstatic affirmation of becoming and an assault on the floating malaise of contemporary information-age life. The ebb and
On the eve of the release of her sophomore LP on Vanguard Records, Daphne Willis has a lot going on. Whether it’s her nationwide tour or work with charity, the 22-year-old Nashville-based via Chicago singer maintains a positive perspective on her thusfar charmed life. Willis has taken an unconventional approach to her upcoming release Because
I had the pleasure of coming across this LA-based, UCLA-bred band, Alto, at the Acoustic Coffee House performance/competition (featuring Lady Danville) at UCLA a little while ago. These two girls—both strikingly tall and poised with vintage, quirky appearances—wowed not only me but the judges with their talent and sound. With Jessica Jones on the upright
Sometimes, L.A. does something out of the ordinary, a little outside their comfort zones, and it turns out to be possibly the most fun you’ve had in a long time- like since SXSW three weeks ago. L.A. based band Fight From Above offered us the perfect excuse to diverge from our usually offices peppered along